Tier 1
Symbol of a king or queen's authority, or the power of a monarchy or royal government?
Crown
The main reasons European explorers traveled to new lands?
God, Glory, and Gold
A deadly disease in the 1300s that spread through fleas on rats?
Bubonic Plague
A person who comes after someone else in a job, role, or position?
Successor
To travel all the way around something, usually the Earth, by sea or air?
Circumnavigate
A disease outbreak that spreads across many countries or even worldwide?
Pandemic
A person of mixed European and African ancestry?
Mulatto
A religious movement in the 1500s when people broke away from the Catholic Church, led to new Christian churches?
Protestant Reformation
A system where people are treated as property, forced to work without freedom, pay, or rights, and controlled by others?
Slavery
A title for a king or ruler in Persia (modern-day Iran)?
Shah
How people live, interact, and form relationships in groups or communities?
Social
A person born in the Americas to Spanish parents?
Creole
A list of complaints written by Martin Luther in 1517 against the Catholic Church?
95 Theses
When a group of people adopts the culture, language, and customs of another group, often losing their original cultural identity over time?
Assimilation
A powerful empire in Persia (modern-day Iran) from the 1500s to the 1700s. It made Shia Islam the main religion and was known for its art, architecture, and trade?
Safavid Empire
Relating to government, leadership, laws, or the way people make decisions about how a society is run?
Political
The private living quarters of a Muslim ruler where his wives and female family members lived, often separated from the public?
Harem
The forced movement of millions of Africans across the ocean to the Americas from the 1500s to the 1800s(300 years)?
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
A country where most people share the same culture, language, and history, and it has its own government that controls a specific territory?
Nation States
The transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after Columbus's voyages?
Colombian Exchange
Relating to the natural world, including air, water, land, plants, and animals, and how humans affect or protect it?
Environmental
People born in Spain who moved to the Americas during colonization and held the highest social and political positions in the colonies?
Peninsulares
A document signed in England in 1215 that limited the king's power and gave people basic rights, like fair trials?
Magna Carta
When a country takes control of another land, settles there, and establishes political, economic, and social power over the people who already live there?
Colonization
A large empire in India from the 1500s to the 1800s. It was known for strong rulers, blending Muslim and Hindu cultures, and famous buildings like the Taj Mahal?
Mughal Empire